MORRONA, Alessandro da. Pisa illustrata nelle Arti del Disegno, Livorno: Giovanni Marenigh, 1812, 3 volumes, 8°, second edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 32 etched and engraved plates, 19 folding, by Fernando Fambrini, the author and others (five plates with small wormholes or tears neatly repaired, short tears at folds of a few plates, occasional slight worming to text of volumes II-III, mainly marginal), contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards (corners rubbed). [Cicognara 4312] (3)

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MORRONA, Alessandro da. Pisa illustrata nelle Arti del Disegno, Livorno: Giovanni Marenigh, 1812, 3 volumes, 8°, second edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 32 etched and engraved plates, 19 folding, by Fernando Fambrini, the author and others (five plates with small wormholes or tears neatly repaired, short tears at folds of a few plates, occasional slight worming to text of volumes II-III, mainly marginal), contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards (corners rubbed). [Cicognara 4312] (3)

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Second edition of Morrona's work on the art treasures of Pisa, and the first to contain the two engravings printed from a 15th-century copper plate owned by the artist. The plate, worked on both sides, showed St. Jerome in penitence, and the Inferno according to Dante. No contemporary impressions were known to Hind (Early Italian Engravings, nos. 58-59, pl. 54-55).

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